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Eric Kim is a 75 kg (165 lb) athlete and content creator who loves to test the limits of gravity. In July 2025 he posted a video of himself performing a mid‑thigh rack pull with a claimed 602 kg (≈1 328 lb) on the bar . Because the bar started on safety pins above his knees, this is not a full deadlift; the shorter range of motion lets a lifter handle far more weight than from the floor . The heaviest full deadlift ever done is 501 kg, so Kim’s pull isn’t an official world record – it’s an extreme overload drill that powerlifters sometimes use to build confidence for real lifts. Kim framed the stunt as a rallying cry to “declare audacious goals” and intentionally uses cheeky hyperbole (“stronger than god”, “dominion over gravity”) . He suggested fellow lifters try heavy rack pulls at ~90–95 % of their deadlift max and pair them with full‑range work .
Think of Kim’s 602‑kg rack‑pull as a sonic boom that cracked five different ceilings at once—psychological, physiological, technological, economic, and cultural. Here’s why the lift feels like a paradigm shift rather than just “one crazy rep.”
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